Game.



M. A. AUDSLEY.

. GAME.

APPLICATION FILED DEc.24. 1914. l

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Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

MAURICE A. .AUDSLEY, OF CORONA, NEW YORK.

GAME.

j Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. e, 19215.

Application filed December 24, 1914. Serial No. 878,856..

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAURICE A. AUnsLEY, subject of King George V of England, and a resident of Corona, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification. l

rlhis invention relates to games of skill wherein a plurality of units are employed, one unit comprising a projectile discharging implement, and another a target mechanically operablevunder the impact force of the projectile.

In the example of my improved game which is the subject of the present application, the discharging implement may be in the form of a torpedo boat having a spring operated launching tube, with a release trigger, and the target may be in the form of a gun boat with a removable deck and a spring concealed beneathsaid deck forl throwing it into the air; together with a catch mechanism for said spring having an actuating buttonfexposed at the side of the gun boat for tripping said catch when struck.

by the projectile.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a torpedoboat with launching tube. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a torpedo or projectile. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the gun boat, with the deck removed, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section of Fig. 5, showing the deck as raised therefrom.

In practice I have found that when the units of my improved game, which I call a naval game, are of.. wood there is thus provided in economical form a most attractive toy whose manipulation affbrds considerable pleasure because involving a novel form of practice in marksmanship. Obviously however the said units may be composed of other materials.

The torpedoboat unit, as 1, is shown as provided with a launching tube 2, extending forwardly from the funnel 3. Said tube- 'contains spring expulsion means whereby a projectile may be ejected with desired force and velocity to accomplish the desired resultin the game, as willbe explained hereinafter. Said spring device may comprise a pair of spiral springs 4, 4, hitched at the forward end of tube 2 and extending rearwardly to a saddledevice 5 adapted to receive the rear end of a torpedo 6 or other projectile that may be entered within tube 2 andpressed rearwardly therein, distending said spring in so doing. The torpedo may have a recess 7 in its surface to receive and engage the depending nose of a trip lever 9 entering tube. 2 through a sloty 10, said lever being pivoted, as at 11, in a vertical slot 12 formed through the funnel 13, whereby the torpedo is held, with its ejecting springs extended, in readiness for discharge. A spring as 14 located in the slot 12 may press lever 9 downwardly to maintain the aforesaid engagement; and said lever has a rearward extension, v forming a handle whereby it may be operated to release its nose 8 from recess 7 and thus permit the discharge of the torpedo.

The target unit here shown consists of the gun boat 15 having recesses 16 fore and aft and the deck portion 17 (which may have smoke stacks 1,8) provided with studs 'or dowels 19, to yfit loosely in recesses 16 whereby the. deck is disengageably connected to the hull portion of the boat.

The intermediate portion of the gun boat is hollowed out, as at 20,11to contain certain trip spring mechanism, whereby the', deck may be suddenly-lifted from the boat. Said mechanism consists of a -coiled A spring 21 having a bail 22, adapted when under tension to beheld between a pivoted tongue 23 and a loop 24, a bell crank lever, pivoted at 25, having an arm 26 adapted to engage the loop 24 and remove it from the path of the tongue 23, thusreleasing the bail 22, which then, under the stored energy of the spring 2l, flies upwardly, engaging the deckl 17 which is then suddenly elevated. This action is induced through an impetus given the other arm `25 of the bell crank lever, said arm 25 normally lying in substantial parallelism with the side of the boat in position to be engaged and vactuated by a detent 27 that extends out to the outer surface of the boat, where'it is provided with a head or button 28 that serves as a mark or target for the projectile.

Thus the game consists in an operator firing or launching a projectile or torpedo from the torpedo boat at a gun boat, aiming for the head 28 of the detent therein, which, when hit, is thrust inwardly, thereby actuating the bell crank lever, which in the manner described releases the spring, causing the latter to throw vthe deck of the gun boat into the air, in the-'manner of an explosion.

lf there are two playerseach may have a torpedo boat and a number of gun boats, and the object of the game is to explode the opposing gunboats.

Obviously the representative character of the units, or one of them, may be varied, as to comprise forts or other structures.

I claim: y

, l. A game wherein a unit includes a projectile ejector having amanually operable trip, and a unit including a removable upper portion, a trip spring device to throw said upper portion upwardly, and an operating detent for said spring device serving as an exposed mark or target outside said second named unit to be actuated by impact from said projectile.

2. A naval game wherein a` unit in the form of a torpedo boat includes a projectile ejector having" a manually .operable trip, 2e

and a lur'iit in the form of a gun boat 1ncluding a removable deck portion, a trip spring device to throw said deck portion upwardly, and an operating detent for said spring device serving as an exposed mark or target outside said gun boat to be actuated by impact from said projectile.

Signed at Corona, in the county of Queens 

